Why You Need to Create Your Own Online Course Right Now

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You Are An Expert

Everyone has unique expertise and valuable knowledge that they can share with the world. Yes, even a new blogger.

If you have a blog about a specific topic, chances are that you are an expert on that topic.

If you have a marketable skill of any kind, you can easily create an online course that will make you money.

Whether you are experienced in graphic design, marketing, blogging, or you know a lot about specific hobbies like crafts, woodworking or even knitting, there’s an audience waiting to purchase your course!

While you already know that you are an expert in that field, creating a course will position yourself as a thought leader and authority in your market.

Creating an online course is the right way to pack what you already know and use it to help other people attain great results.

Online Courses Are Hot Right Now

Yes, online courses are huge right now. According to Industry Forecasts, by the year 2025, online learning will be a $331 billion industry!

Think about how many online courses or guides you’ve personally used over the last year.

Perhaps you were stuck trying to figure out how to use a certain software program, and you found yourself surfing the web in search of resources from experts who taught you the best ways to master it quickly and efficiently. Or you wanted to learn a new skill or pick up a new hobby: you can find an online course about anything!

The need for instruction and the fact that online courses are easily accessible have created an amazing opportunity for anyone who is interested in generating a steady income online.

And don’t worry about whether people would be willing to pay for your knowledge or not, you’d be surprised at just how many courses are generating thousands of dollars a month in any niche.

Teachable alone has 30,000 course-creators who’ve collectively generated over $200 million in sales.

And these successful courses span every topic, including:

Watercolour painting

Parenting

Drone flying

Woodworking

Hand lettering

Tennis coaching

Dog training

Guitar playing

Languages

Programming

Traveling Europe

Gardening

Blacksmithing

Calligraphy

Business

Online courses are scalable

Actually, courses have always been the go-to for everyone that needs to learn something.

However, with the “traditional” way to teach in person, you basically get paid for the hours that you work.

While the beauty of online courses is that once you create it, you’re done.

You don’t need to trade your time for money, your students can go through your course by themselves.

It becomes a completely passive income. Of course, you still need to promote your course and be ready to answer potential questions from your students, but apart from this, if you use a platform like Teachable, everything is automated.

Consequently, online courses are scalable. In fact, if you don’t need to be constantly there while your students are learning, there is no ceiling to the number of people that can enroll in your course simultaneously.

You Can Use Affiliate Links

You can maximise the monetisation through affiliate links.

In fact, even if you decide to create a free course you can still make money from it.

This is because, while I show my students how to start with Pinterest the right way, I also show them how to use some tools that helped me grow my Pinterest marketing.

I think it’s fair to use affiliate links because it’s at no cost to my students.

But if they end up switching to the providers that I use because of my endorsement in my course, I think it’s only fair that the provider should pay for my endorsement and referral (at no extra cost for my students).

We’ve chosen Teachable as most of its functionality is intuitive, making a good looking course is seamless and the upload of material such as videos, photos, etc. is really easy.

Creating sales pages or integrating discount coupons is a smooth process. It takes care of the payment aspect and any possible refund. And, as I’ve already said, if you have an affiliate program, it tracks everything for you and sends the right amount to your affiliate.

A bonus point is that Teachable has lots of resources to help you create and market your course. For example, they’re currently hosting a FREE on-demand Masterclass that I really recommend you attend if you are planning to create your online course now or later on. This Masterclass will definitely put you on the right track to create your course.

And if you are ready to create your own course, this is the best time to do it as Teachable is running a Creator Challenge!

The Creator Challengeis an exciting, 3-month long event hosted by Teachable from June through August — and it’s specifically designed for course creators.

During those three months, you’ll build your course alongside a community of thousands of other new course creators like you.

And the best thing is that you don’t have to pay to enroll in the challenge!

So, even if you weren’t thinking about creating your course right now, my advice is to put everything else aside and take this opportunity to create your course with the support from a like-minded community and tons of professional input.

And honestly, I think you should start the challenge even if you’ve already launched your own course. I will be joining the challenge even if I’ve already created a couple of courses because there is always something new to learn and because it will be so much fun!

You have provided excellent information in this post. I’m new to blogging and have been doing a lot of research. Monetization is obviously a widely discussed topic and what ways are best to get the most bang for your buck. You are convincing me that a course is the way to go!

Is there a magic number when it makes sense to create a course, in terms of page views, subscribers, etc.? Creating courses is my ultimate goal for monetizing, I’m just not sure when it makes sense to do it.

The best thing about online courses is that they are scalable. You will get the results depending on the amount of work you put in. I am in the process of creating one of my own. Do not think that it was easy to make but I am 100% sure that it is worth all the hard work. Once it starts catching on traction, it will make money on auto pilot.

I have been thinking of other ways to monetize my blog and developing an online course is starting to look like the answer. Having had a look at the Creator Challenge at Teachable it looks an excellent way to build a course so thanks for highlighting it to me.

I have been working on a free five-day email course for a year now and still have yet to make it live! I know; I am finally at the stage of setting up the email sequence. I hope to get past this roadblock, so that I can start marketing it. I have already put in the hard work of writing the script, shooting and editing the videos, creating a workbook and the emails; I just need to figure out how to set up the sequence on Mailchimp. Your post has motivated me to get back at it. Thanks! 🙌🏾